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Alan Jacobs Gets Lost
Percy is to us what Virgil was to Dante, but cannot fulfill that role straightforwardly because of our hostility to anyone who claims moral authority. But maybe a sardonic, foul-mouthed, bourbon-drinking Catholic Virgil is the one we both need and deserve. Alan Jacobs writing in Christianity Today . Excellent longish essay well worth the read.
Percy and Passover
Over at Townhall.com, Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Greenberg cites The Moviegoer : Binx’s search as exodus. Amen.
A toast
Here’s what you need to know for this one. Flannery O’Connor shares a birthday with The Wife (March 25). Flannery O’Connor gained early fame for having a chicken that could walk forwards and backwards . A critter got into our coop two weeks ago and ate all our chickens. Yesterday, a kind soul donated five laying hens to The Wife, but they had been kept previously in quarters that were too close. As a result, they pecked each other, and all but one has a backside that is bereft of feathers. Flannery O’Connor’s hen Was trained in ways that I am not She’d walk the line and back again Whilst I just slip or hold my spot. Now Deirdre Katherine, once called Scholl Has chickens five, with backsides bare And my frequent slips of mind and soul Leave me as exposed back there But Flannery and Deirdre, too Found grace and truth in frightening things O’Connor in the things freaks do And Deirdre in our wedding rings So they drop egg...
Si Deus pro nobis, quis contra nos?
Credere adversario dedecet nos nihil iam superesse suadenti quod iniustitia coram ac violentia nencon malitia ipsa efficere queamus. — Papa Franciscus (@Pontifex_ln) March 24, 2013 (Anglica)